| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 27, 2001, 12:44 |
At 12.44 p.m. 27.10.2001 +0000, you wrote:>An alternative in English to "cats and dogs" is "stair-rods". It seems >to me that describing heavy rain as some sort of long, thin object >(rope, pipestems, stair-rods) is common, so where does the menagerie >fit into all of this?I've never heard that before. Personally, when it's pouring, I say 'Thank God, it's pouring!'. Tristan